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Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...
Phoenix
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
The Devil of Edo
Oogonju
Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...
Man Who Causes a Storm
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...
Avalanche
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
The Eagle of the Pacific
The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version
The Beautiful Hawk
Keshô yuki
A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
Karisome no kuchibeni
A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
Banzuiin Chōbei
Akogare no Hawaii kôro
憧れのハワイ航路
War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Kantaro of Ina
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...
Green Earth
First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.
Maboroshi Tantei: Chiteijin Shūrai
Japanese crime film.
I'm Not the Criminal
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
The Last Embrace
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...
The Moon Has Risen
Part one of two.
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
A Ripple in a Morning
A 1942 film.
Omokage no machi
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
Invisible Man
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...
The Girl in the Rumor
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...
Wedding Day
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Summer Storm
Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.
Kaguya Hime
A 1943 film.
音楽大進軍
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...
China Night
Japanese film.
Nangoku taiheiki
A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...
Learn from Experience, Part One
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....
Dancers of Awa
An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...
Namiko
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Seishun wo warera ni
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...
Mother of the Red Hands
Jidaigeki from 1940
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
Part two of two.
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Living Image
Machi
Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda
Okumura Ioka
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
The Giant
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...
Mado Kara Tobidase
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...
The Samurai of Edo
Japanese drama film.
Kanshō fujin
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...
Eleven High School Girls